Transportation
India Seeks Law Banning Non-Conforming Structures Near Airports
The tail of the Air India aircraft protrudes from a hostel where it crashed, in Ahmedabad.
Photographer: Elke Scholiers/Getty Images
India plans to clamp down on structures near airports that don’t comply with height regulation, as the governments seeks to tighten aviation safety in the wake of an airliner crash last week that ranks as the country’s worst in several decades.
The government is drafting a law that would allow the demolition of buildings near airfields that don’t meet vertical limits, which isn’t the case now. The bill will be open for public feedback for three weeks, after which the responses will be analyzed and then drafted into a law.